RunItTw1ce
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9min - I never thought of thinking of too many things as dangerous. It makes sense though that we can accomplish a lot more by present and just focusing on one thing at a time. Or we do a bunch of different things and accomplish nothing.
14min - Regarding sharing results or hand histories. What advice would you give if someone is constantly sending you bad beats and you offer strategy adjustments, but they repeat the same issue? Some times its bad play where they consider it variance or being unlucky but it stems from a preflop mistake. Where post flop is a "cooler" but its a hand that should of never been played in the first place. What advice would you give to someone who thinks they are just unlucky?
March 16, 2024 | 2:24 a.m.
29-31min When Berri is bluffing nut blocker AhQ76 on 753Khhh you mentioned you only want to go half pot. If you are repping the nuts, why not go polar? Can we just bet nuts and nut blocker big? Medium flushes and medium blockers for a 1/2 pot sizing? To me the turn and river pot-pot makes sense. You also mentioned Amsogood is a bit more cautious, so those thin value raises are not going to come through as often when we use a smaller size when we have the nuts and that is going to cost us value.
March 16, 2024 | 1:29 a.m.
26:45 any point in bluffing T7c on this A76dd-K-J run out after you call 3bet. Call flop Xr. Turn and river XX. I thought you might shove the river.
March 15, 2024 | 2:40 a.m.
Lastly I wouldn't mind a part 2 of playing vs limpers. Maybe can pull up some real time hands from your database where you isolated preflop or even went MW. But would like to see a drill where you give yourself 33-50-75-100 bet sizes so you can drill what happens more often in practice than what solver is doing.
March 13, 2024 | 3:16 a.m.
44:30 your note on using bigger bets on AK7 and T75. How would you classify 66 earlier in the video (17:30) on Q94r where it's using 67% pot with most of its range. Are we just range betting for larger size whenever we have set advantage?
March 13, 2024 | 3:13 a.m.
42min on AKTr-6ss board. I am surprised to see a turn Over bet. I thought whenever a player has QJo / QJs for all 16 combos of straights in their range we do not overbet. But wizard is going B67-B119 here. I wouldn't go bigger than B75 with a straight possible. Maybe I still need to OB more often.
March 13, 2024 | 3:09 a.m.
8min I think training IP vs a wide limp call range is good practice. I wish we could node lock them to XR less often and donk bet more often. We end up betting way more often for a variety of sizes whenever they don't XR unless they have a monster. I want the node lock to come through in the drill, not on an individual hand basis.
This also increases our OOP cbet frequency if IP doesn't raise often enough. Lastly we get to size larger on the flop and grow the pot because they will raise their good hands and cap their range by calling and over folding on later streets. Matt Hunt made a video for wizard on this concept, but he did crazy wide ranges at 50bb.
March 12, 2024 | 11:57 p.m.
matlittle I am not sure these online flop float bets happen as much in live cash as they do online. I have been playing mostly a range check SRP OOP or when I'm monkey in the middle SRP OOP. What I notice at least in these 1/3 and 2/5 games I play in Vegas a lot of players just take a free card with their draws and will bet when they have a pair. Their PP, 2nd pair, & top pair will stab too often, but they are not betting enough draws. I was thinking just betting your strong value OOP gains the most EV in these spots even though it leaves your checking range mostly capped. Some other reasons I like fast playing OOP is the XR scares players to think you have a lot of 2 pair, sets, or over pairs. Compared to if you bet they are more likely to make a lot of calling mistakes.
Lastly I still have no idea how to treat this situation. EP limps 1bb, hero HJ ISO 4bb, BTN calls, BB calls, and limper calls. Now we have 16.5bb in the pot, 1 player has position on us and 2 players we have position on. Are we checking range here because we are OOP vs 1 player similar to Co vs BTN? Are we betting because we have position on 2 players? Even if this spot was 3 way where we have position over a limper, but we are monkey in the middle seems confusing. Some type of hybrid poker of being IP & OOP at the same time! Because the pot is bloated, I almost want to treat it as SB vs BTN 3BP OOP. Where we mix cbetting. Any advice on this?
March 12, 2024 | 11:46 p.m.
Luke Johnson I finally got one right you agree with ;-) I'll play AhAx as B70 and the other 3 combos blocking the calling range as checks.
March 8, 2024 | 3:21 a.m.
34:00 another one "and fuck" lots of tough spots in this part of the series.
March 6, 2024 | 1:36 a.m.
Just got to this part LOL quite entertaining. Nice hero call EluSiVeMark Glad one of these hero calls worked out in your favor.
March 6, 2024 | 1:24 a.m.
15:30 KK 3B B-BC-C facing a XC-XR-Ai from opponent even though you hold a heart I don't think its a call. As you mentioned you need opponent to be turning 8h8x 9h9x into a bluff, which is unlikely and you don't beat value. I would be a pretty big over fold in theory to only call flushes here, but maybe correct? If it is a call, then I think 22:30 with AK is also a call. You 3B pre. B-XC-XF. I think its easier for villain to bluff in this other hand than when you had a set. Looking back at these 2 hands do you still like the call with KK and your fold with AK? You mentioned you would call AsKx but then you also block some of the bluffs AsQx hands right?
March 6, 2024 | 1:21 a.m.
9:45 with ATd what are your thoughts on river block bet like 10%? 3B+C4B, XC-X-B10? I think if we B10 flop its a lot easier to fold to a river jam. Where checking and facing a jam puts us on an island. Unless we are also checking hands like ATc AJc and not 5 betting AK... AT seems to be pretty high in our range but still left wanting to fold on the river facing a BXB line.
QQ hand 12min mark very similar. Call 3bet and choose to river block bet vs a XC-X-X line. I thought maybe we can block the turn and X back river rather than potentially facing a larger river bet. Thoughts on B50ish flop, B33 turn, to check back river with QQ here?
March 6, 2024 | 1:04 a.m.
38:35 with QQ T#2 LJ 3bb, HJ 3bet. Hero cold call Co to keep LJ in the pot and not to get jammed on by the HJ who has a 16 vpip? Would you recommend doing this in live cash as well where the player pool under 3bets, so we should cold call more AK QQ JJ TT rather than than cold 4? Was debating cold 4 + fold to 5B or cold call and try and realize equity.
March 5, 2024 | 9:29 p.m.
19:30 I thought you were going to fold here. I used custom Ai to match villain's bet size 33-75-Ai here. On the flop with range & nut advantage wizard was only using OB or X. The 1/3 wasn't being used hardly ever. 33 ends up being a pure call but villain has to find a lot of bluffs with JXs & TXs. You have AQo, KQ, 33, and Q3s in your range for boats. I think I agree with you that facing this 400% pot shove we should mostly just fold. In real time I thought possibly QJ would make a better call than 33, but solver is mixing QJ/QT/JT and pure calling 33.
I don't think people find this many bluffs. 33 feels like a fold vs this size but maybe I'm being a nit.
I changed 30% shove frequency to 20% and now 33 gets a lot closer, still pure call for 5 chips in EV, but vastly different than the EV before. Don't think its unreasonable to fold here.
March 5, 2024 | 9:21 p.m.
34:30 If SB was a rec of fun player of sorts would you still try and get him to fold QQ-TT here? Preflop open 2bb, BTN 6bb, SB cold calls. Hero calls. Flop checks through. Turn hero turns 66 into a bluff representing a set and trying to get SB to fold QQ-TT.
March 5, 2024 | 9:03 p.m.
I enjoyed the format, but wouldn't mind a full 60 minute video where you have time to review the hands at the end of the video. We are left waiting a couple of weeks for the results. Also hopefully you figure out how to see opponents hole cards on non showdown hands.
March 5, 2024 | 1:17 p.m.
13:24 A7d on AQ2ssd-9x-9x ever consider turning A7d into a bluff to get villain off chops? Similar to your AQss hand on the K3233 board at the 10min mark. I feel like when SB plays XC-X-X you hardly ever lose here, so I would want to value bet top pair here even though our kicker doesn't play. Not sure of the sizing though. If we want to go big to get villain off a chop? Or we go small and target more KK/JJ/QX hands?
28:25 As4s on J32dd-6ss when you only have a min raise left as a bluff facing a double barrel, how do you pull the trigger on combo draws? Feels like zero fold equity here and I just want to realize my equity.
March 5, 2024 | 1:10 p.m.
10:50 Usually on 9 high and lower boards I'll go 2/3 or X. I was thinking AhAx hands want to go 2/3 and maybe we can use 1/3 when we double block the flop suits. So it splits our AA combos 50/50 with 1/3 or 2/3 size. I am not sure how to balance checks with this method. Maybe just 2/3 when you hold a heart and X without and don't use 1/3 at all?
March 5, 2024 | 12:52 p.m.
9:00 with 8s7s on Ad9s6s-7c if you face a cbet or turn barrel how likely are you to raise and push your equity vs realize your equity by calling? If we think villain has AJ+ here are we ever "gambling" with our equity or just trying to realize all of it? Not sure if low stake live players will ever 3B and fold AK-AJ here if we do choose to raise.
10:00 AsQs on k32ss-3-3 facing a X-X-66 line I was thinking fold on the river. Your thought was call then shove because you chop with A5, so you are bluffing him off some chops. Folding didn't even seem to cross your mind at all. Is this because you bet most of your QQ-44 hands for 1/3 on earlier streets, so ace high is just high up in your range?
March 5, 2024 | 12:50 p.m.
For me I was playing A, K, or Q high boards as 1/3 or X, so as the PFC, I would still use this 1/3 probe / float bet size on the flop. I wasn't aware we are supposed to use more 1/2 or 2/3 on double broadways as the PFC. Being we are at a set disadvantage I didn't think we would want to put in a lot of money.
As the 3 bettor I am playing A-Q high boards 1/3 or X. J-T high boards being mixed between 1/3 or 2/3 size being a punching bag approach. 9 high or lower boards playing 2/3 or X.
So my take away would be 1/3 or X on A-Q high still unless its double broadway? Then its 2/3 or X as the PFC? matlittle Luke Johnson
March 5, 2024 | 12:38 p.m.
49:45 Nuno Alvarez you said you were going to link a video that explained why you shouldn't bluff Q6d on this J73r-Jdd-7x board.
March 1, 2024 | 5:41 a.m.
19min K3c on K82cc-5-8 run out mentioned you want to go 2/3 mostly. Why do you want to go 2/3 with K3c here but on Q53-2-3 you want to use pot?
43min 98o on 954r-Tss respect to Marko for finding so many like B75-B150 lines. Multiple large barrels is just extremely difficult to play against unless you are very comfortable playing a volatile strategy.
In my live games I think for players that fast play a lot of their strong value on the flop for 2 pair+ or over play their top pair for protection get funneled into a capped turn range and Marko would just redline these players to death. I would be always 2nd guessing bluff catchers because similar to the first hand of the video with AT vs A8, Marko proves he can value bet thin for a large size as well.
Exciting match to watch actually. Curious what long term adjustments would be made vs each other.
March 1, 2024 | 5:19 a.m.
16:45 You mentioned Qx+ wants to go around pot. How are you choosing your bluff size here? Can you give me 2-3 examples of other bluffs; which ones go small, which ones use medium size, and which one wants to use a pot size bet for this board? Any simplifications here like King high bluffs go big, Jack high bluffs go medium, and 7 high bluffs go small?
March 1, 2024 | 4:54 a.m.
Being paired up against your friend would you consider swapping action?
Paying out 8 of 127 players for 6% of the field doesn't seem right! Most MTTs I think pay 10-15% of players right? Would like to see like top 16 or so get paid out where if you win 3 matches you are ITM.
March 1, 2024 | 4:25 a.m.
Hand #1 is interesting when you look at it in different currencies to really understand how deep you guys actually are.
Feb. 28, 2024 | 12:43 a.m.
29:45
Seems like a weird spot to "ISO" 85s vs BTN open limp when you are already heads up. Why do you want to iso a weak hand OOP vs a short stack?
28:30
Guys with the highest fold to 3bet OOP are the biggest winners
If you RFI about 22% of hands from the HJ, what percentage of their range are they folding to 3bet? Do you think they are playing more 4BF strategy?
Feb. 27, 2024 | 8:59 a.m.
I think there is a ton of leveling going on in your mind in this video. The mental energy needed to fight the war going on in your mind seems insane.
39:00 T#2 fold JTs BTN vs HJ 2bb open "not sure where the money comes from here."
38:20 checking back HJ vs BB on JT24J board with KJ X-X-C line because "This guy never cold calls."
36:25 QsJs on 834ss-7x-2x when you OB and face a b20 donk bet "unsurprisingly he studied this spot in great detail." You think this is a bot?
29:10 with KK on KcQh9s-5c-8c "here if he pots he just always has a flush so I can fold." I mostly agree with you here but it seems like you are projecting a lot of your thoughts before they actually happen, rather than just reacting to what actually happens.
34:10 AA BB vs LJ 2bb to 15bb 3bet "He's going to try and peel might as well take advantage of it." Why not just use standard bet sizes from the BB like 12bb and save yourself the mental energy of what they player is going to do. I think most of the time they don't know what they are going to do themselves, so its hard to say we know what they are going to do.
Feb. 26, 2024 | 3:56 a.m.
7:30 Table #1 I expected to see more of a B33-B33 line here but wizard has no betting on the turn and is pure folding weaker 2 pairs vs B50. AK only continues about 2/3 of the time. If IP bets 1/3 now AK pure continues. Well played.
33min really love this quote!
42min - Talk about fear of losing when margins are tight or perceived tight. For me I suffer from not putting in enough volume and savings slowly depletes based on the stakes I am playing. I know X hours = Y money in order to survive or move up in stakes. I don't lack the knowledge, skill, bankroll, etc to succeed. I simply do not put in enough hours. Is it laziness? Lack of prioritizing responsibilities? Bad time management? They all play a part I am sure. But on the slide it mentions fear of losing. I think my fear is something else, but it feels closer to a self sabotage than a fear of losing. I don't think I'm going to lose and I am familiar with the variance in the game. Proven winner long run. How do I adjust my weekly volume from like 32hrs to 40hrs or 50 hours? I don't have kids or a job that is in the way. Going back to the 9 min mark of too many thoughts are dangerous. Maybe a fear of uncertainty and checking results too often?
Anyways any advice on this would be helpful. Thank you. Currently going though A-game poker book, then I'll go through A-game master class again. Maybe its just a poor sleep regiment. Maybe fear of success from not being successful at a high level previous years. I am doing what is comfortable too often.
March 16, 2024 | 2:41 a.m.